Heba Arafa Abdelfattah is visiting assistant professor of Arabic Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Literature. She completed her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Georgetown University in 2017. Her research interest falls in the interdisciplinary area of humanities with special focus on modernity, religion and popular culture. She works with literary texts, archival documents, films, and artistic production to understand discourses of modernity. She is especially interested in issues of cultural production in the context Islamic legal traditions in MENA and global flows.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Colonialism
Democratization
Globalization
History Of Religion
Human Rights
Identity/Representation
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Modern
Modernization
Pop Culture
Theater
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2017
| Arabic and Islamic Studies
| Georgetown University
